[PLUG] What Is Sending Email?

[Michael Barnes]

Figured out the grep thing. Found my answer in /etc/aliases.

Thanks to all.

Michael


On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:30 PM Jason Bergstrom <bergie at bergie.net> wrote:

> It's always worth while checking /etc/aliases and /etc/mail/aliases
> as that is the normal location any MTA would redirect mail directed
> to root/postmaster.
>
> I do run Exim on servers, but know Debian has been overly focused
> on modularization/macros that complicate simple administration.
>
> To directly expand exim directives you can get the values with:
> exim -bP
>
> It is also possible that someone has placed their own values under
> /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template or even a file under that directory that
> would be overwritten by an update.
>
> Jason,
> bergie at begie.net
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:28:27PM -0400, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 22:58 Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 3:17 PM TomasK <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > If you cannot find the variable by: grep -r E4BCD_ config_dir
> > > > .. you can always add a few lines to send yourself email containing
> the
> > > > variables at the next execution.
> > > > Once you know the email address - it should be trivial to find it in
> > > > files.
> > > >
> > > > Hope it helps, Tomas
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I do know the email address it is trying to send to. I'm not very
> smart in
> > > finding strings in random files. I can't find any reference to that
> address
> > > anywhere.
> > > .
> >
> >
> > Did you try and failed recursive grep on the config directory - as
> > suggested above?
> >
> > If unsure, learn more by: man grep
> >
> > Tomas
> >
> > >
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